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Tuesday, May 28. 2024

Tuesday morning links

Design vs Fine Art: Sitting on the art


The branch of the Nile that ran past the Pyramids


The Debate Over Lab-Grown Meat - Are concerns about cultured meat justified?


 How Finding a “Third Place” Can Boost Your Well-Being


Physically-healthy Dutch woman Zoraya ter Beek dies by euthanasia aged 29 because she did not want to live with depression


Angry Young Women


 Bird flu is now widespread in wild birds around the globe, and it has been causing outbreaks in U.S. poultry and dairy cows, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


 Michigan Confirms First Human Case of High-Risk Bird Flu, Marking Second U.S. Case This Year


 Screwworms once killed millions of dollars’ worth of cattle a year in the southern U.S. Their range extended from Florida to California, and they infected any living, warm-blooded animal: not only cattle but deer, squirrels, pets, and even the occasional human.


Trust The "Science"...That Just Retracted 11,000 "Peer Reviewed" Papers


 Anthony Fauci's Superior at the NIH Admits That the "Six Foot Rule" of Social Distancing Was Never Based on Any Science At All


 Nellie Bowles Thoroughly Humiliates the New York Times


 Biden To Ruin Thousands Of Miles Of Land For Green Energy Scheme


 Some employers are reluctant to hire college grads who attended pro-Palestinian protests, survey finds



‘Supportive housing’ is no cure-all for mentally ill homeless


Gavin Newsom Touts California Plan to Combat Homelessness As a ‘National Model’


California’s Looming Crime Catastrophe - Recent legislation makes it easier for felons to claim racial bias—potentially putting them back on the streets in large numbers.


The Nation: It’s Not Too Late for Democrats to Win Back Rural Voters


National Park Construction Crew Told to Stop Flying American Flag


Columbia has more full-time employees than undergrads, including an Earth Observatory DEI director


 New York City's Ongoing "Affordable Housing" Follies


The Massive Immigration Wave Hits America's Schools And Shelters


 Joe Biden spends his Memorial Day weekend celebrating George Floyd


 Harrison Butker, supervillain


 Petition demands Kansas City Chiefs fire kicker Harrison Butker for ‘discriminatory’ grad speech


 'So Much For Democracy'? Blinken Justifies Ukraine Canceling Elections


  Nation Building’s Last Stand in Gaza.


Germany:  No driving on the weekends?


The End of Ireland's Great Consensus

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A step to wining back rural voters would be to stop demonizing them at every turn------
#1 Dale the peasant on 2024-05-28 09:55 (Reply)
..."To my knowledge, this is the first large-scale U.S. study of avian influenza in an urban area, and the first with active community involvement," Marizzi said in a journal news release...."

The reputation of the political and media world is so far into the malinformational cesspit now, that I can only interpret this as a call to action for a perfectly-timed, election-season pandemic, once again mandating the use of unsupervised ballot boxes, widespread absentee ballots with no excuses necessary, no identification required, and rampant election fraud in an environment of studied, dismissive nonchalance.
#2 Aggie on 2024-05-28 09:56 (Reply)
Solution: Paper ballots only and all of them have serial numbers. Manned ballot boxes with multiple cameras and no masks allowed. One ballot per person. All ballots secured, guarded and accounted for. All counting done inside a room made up of glass with viewing stands on all sides and cameras at all angles. No machines!! All video placed online available to anyone.
#2.1 JustMe on 2024-05-28 11:13 (Reply)
Re: Gavin Newsom Touts California Plan to Combat Homelessness As a ‘National Model’

Only a Democrat could tout obviously failing, not to mention expensive, policies as a model for the rest of the country. Only a Democrat would agree with him. I eagerly await his explaining how the bullet train from LA to San Francisco is the model for transportation going forward with Secretary Buttigieg wholehearted endorsement.
#3 mudbug on 2024-05-28 10:13 (Reply)
"The Massive Immigration Wave Hits America's Schools And Shelters"

We should pass legislation making it illegal to give money or other forms of aid to non-citizen. And for expenses like health care or schools the costs should be charged to the home country of the individuals here illegally until they can be deported back to their homeland. There is too much money and not enough punishment in this entire illegal immigration issue. Jail anyone who aides and abets an illegal alien. "What you allow is what will continue".
#4 OneGuy on 2024-05-28 11:05 (Reply)
OneGuy - what about the non-citizens who have come into the US legally and are busy trying to obtain US citizenship? Do you really think they should be denied any form of aid should they fall on hard times en route to their quest for citizenship? As for the illegals, I totally agree they are being treated far too generously, more generously than US citizens and legal immigrants are.
#4.1 Frances on 2024-05-28 22:44 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Screwworms once killed millions of dollars’ worth of cattle a year in the southern U.S. Their range extended from Florida to California, and they infected any living, warm-blooded animal: not only cattle but deer, squirrels, pets, and even the occasional human. (Link to article in The Atlantic.)
I can imagine some WOKE activists- with active mouths but inactive brain cells- denouncing this USDA project as decreasing species diversity, or imposing economic values upon Mother Nature's values, or a prime example of Yankee imperialism, or some such.

The article informs us that the program costs $15 million a year, and saves US ranchers some $1 billion a year. ($796 million in 1996 article, which would be $1.3 billion today).

Incidentally The Atlantic has another distinctly non-Woke article recently. I CARRIED OUT THE STRIKE THAT KILLED SOLEIMANI. AMERICA DOESN’T UNDERSTAND THE LESSON OF HIS DEATH.
#5 Gringo on 2024-05-28 11:29 (Reply)
Before I retired, I was known to come home and scream into my pillow now and then due to the frustrations of my job. It temporarily made me feel better, but didn't really do anything else.
#6 RebeccaH on 2024-05-28 11:31 (Reply)
What I wouldn't give to quit mine. It's in manufacturing and the heat and humidity this time of year causes me major anxiety, as does the loud music that my coworkers blare without consideration for the rest of us. A coworker has verbally threatened me twice and the higher-ups haven't really done anything about it because they only care about quotas and profit.

I wish I had enough money so that I could partially retire and work some sort of quiet, air-conditioned retail job.
#6.1 Maniac on 2024-05-29 09:17 (Reply)
Petition demands Kansas City Chiefs fire kicker Harrison Butker for ‘discriminatory’ grad speech

From the link:
QUOTE:
It’s the Catholic guy telling women that families are more important than careers where people draw the line.’

“These comments reinforce harmful stereotypes that threaten social progress. They create a toxic environment that hinders our collective efforts towards equality, diversity and inclusion in society. It is unacceptable for such a public figure to use their platform to foster harm rather than unity,” the petition states.
IOW, those who disagree with the WOKEsters should be canceled/punished. No big surprise. How many times have who inform us that they support diversity have also indicated that they want suppression of opinions that disagree with them? Too many to count...

Recall William F. Buckley's crack about liberals:
QUOTE:
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”


How many Kansas City Chiefs season-ticket holders signed the petition? Just wondering.
#7 Gringo on 2024-05-28 11:46 (Reply)
One wonders, how many of those signatories even read his speech?
#7.1 B. Hammer on 2024-05-28 12:03 (Reply)
The Chiefs organization should find out, and ban any petition signers from buying season tickets. They need to control their own roster.
#7.2 ruralcounsel on 2024-05-28 17:45 (Reply)
The Nile River has changed course over the millennia. Interesting hypothesis. Since the website is Nature, I naturally thought there would be a reference to climate change. When I began the paragraph explaining how the Nile is prone to migrating, I thought for sure this it, this is where they will tell me about climate change. Weird. Not a word about the man made catastrophe.
#8 B. Hammer on 2024-05-28 12:01 (Reply)
re Germany: No driving on the weekends?

So . . . . What if they ordered the banning of driving on weekends and pretty much everyone ignored the degree?

What then?

They may have to wait until Government has the capacity to shut everyone's cars off with the push of a computer key.
#9 feeblemind on 2024-05-28 12:27 (Reply)
"Trust the science", just does not sound 'safe and effective'.
#10 indyjonesouthere on 2024-05-28 13:09 (Reply)
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Columbia has more full-time employees than undergrads, including an Earth Observatory DEI director

Misleading. Columbia has 4 undergraduate schools but 16 graduate schools. Total enrollment is about 36,000. Total staff is about 10,000 about half of which are academic staff.
#11 Zachriel on 2024-05-28 13:42 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Anthony Fauci's Superior at the NIH Admits That the "Six Foot Rule" of Social Distancing Was Never Based on Any Science At All

There is substantial science that respiratory diseases can be spread through droplets from speaking, coughing, or sneezing. However, the distance droplets can travel depends on their size and initial velocity. Droplets ≥ 100 μm drop out in about half a meter for speaking, one meter for coughing, and two meters for sneezing. Droplets ≤ 100 μm often reduce to aerosols, which can still be infectious. See Cheng et al., Trajectories of large respiratory droplets in indoor environment, Building and Environment 2020.

Consequently, there is no exact point of perfect safety. Two meters (about six feet) removes most large droplets.
#12 Zachriel on 2024-05-28 14:03 (Reply)
Well then you need to trot on over to the NIH and set them straight!

But...

"droplets often reduce to aerosols which can still be infectious." Right and since they are very small, the stay in the air for much longer periods of time increasing the odds that someone will walk through them. Also, aerosols can be a by product of breathing and so droplets are not necessary to produce them.

"six feet removes most large droplets" [but not aerosols]. So, even as the NIH has finally admitted, the 6 ft rule is pretty much useless.
#12.1 mudbug on 2024-05-28 15:18 (Reply)
mudbug: "droplets often reduce to aerosols which can still be infectious." Right and since they are very small, the stay in the air for much longer periods of time increasing the odds that someone will walk through them. Also, aerosols can be a by product of breathing and so droplets are not necessary to produce them.

That is correct. With COVID, more so than with influenza, aerosols have been a significant mode of transmission. (It generally requires far fewer viruses to cause COVID infection than influenza.) That does not make social distancing "pretty much useless". However, as it became clear that aerosols were a significant mode of transmission, it meant ventilation became a major issue, as well as reducing crowding.
#12.2 Zachriel on 2024-05-28 15:24 (Reply)
There is a reason Zach defends both the mask and the six foot space. Because this is all coming back again and both of those things are visible, enforceable ways to spread fear and implement compliance. This isn't about preventing the spread, saving lives or the disease, it is about dividing us and enforcing their will upon us. You remember all those people who wanted to jail or even kill anyone who did not comply? That is how the divide and conquer part of the fear campaign works. Turn in your neighbor if they aren't complying. Arrest people on the street for not wearing a mask, even have 3 or 4 250 lb cops jump on them throw them to the ground and knees and full weight to the back.

Think about that for a minute... you are supposedly a danger because you have or could have a communicable disease so the cops get int a wrestling match and force body fluid from you nose and mouth and beat you up!!! Doesn't make any sense! If you were actually dangerously communicable they wouldn't touch you. But, no, they are enjoying the opportunity to beat you up. It is no different than the decision to use deadly force in the Trump raid or when they swatted Mark Houck. They want violence! They are immune from prosecution while they beat you up. They hope you "resist". Afterwards at their cop bars they brag about breaking ribs and putting you in the hospital. You though that the KGB or the NAZA brown shirts were an aberration? NO! That is the native condition of some men given too much power. This is what the Democrats are planning for you. That's why they are calling you "white supremacists" or "far right MAGA" or any of the other names they use to dehumanize you and make it easier for the divided country to accept when it comes time to purge
you. Remember that lone surfer or the guy sitting by himself in the park. Remember the peaceful trucker strike in Canada. This is going to come back because you didn't stop them last time. I would bet you a million bucks that those six cops who wrestled that lone surfer to the ground and kicked his ass still brag about it when they get together.

Bird flu! Disease X. mandatory vaccines unless you are an illegal alien. LOL! We deserve this. We failed the patriotic constitutional citizenship test. Now you get to take the test again, and again and there will be more beatdowns, churches closed, gym owners jailed and bankrupted. Because you learned nothing last time. The prize is not just your subjugation, it is the complete stripping of your civil constitutional rights. And half of your friends and neighbors will help them do it. And Zach will get his 40 pieces of silver.
#12.2.1 Anon on 2024-05-28 17:23 (Reply)
Anon: There is a reason Zach defends both the mask and the six foot space. Because this is all coming back again and both of those things are visible, enforceable ways to spread fear and implement compliance.

Next thing ya know, the government will force you to wear clothes in public, or stop when the light is red.

The fact is that are valid reasons to keep social distance during a pandemic. Keep in mind that more than a million died during the pandemic—just in the United States. Also note that social distancing measures ended when the pandemic ended.
#12.2.2 Zachriel on 2024-05-28 20:39 (Reply)
Pulling your head out of your butt is safer than the two meter hoax.
#13 indyjonesouthere on 2024-05-28 14:31 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Joe Biden spends his Memorial Day weekend celebrating George Floyd

Misleading. May 25 was not Memorial Day but the anniversary of Floyd's death. On Memorial Day, President Biden posted on X at least six times honoring those who died in military service to the United States, including posting, "Since America's founding, our service members have laid down their lives for an idea unlike any other: the idea of the United States. Today, as generations of heroes lie in eternal peace, we live by the light of liberty they kept burning. May God bless them, always."

Biden also honored America's fallen service members at the National Memorial Day Observance.
#14 Zachriel on 2024-05-28 15:36 (Reply)
Saturday May 25th is part of the Memorial Day weekend. So no, not misleading, but completely accurate.

Why the POTUS would even bring up a criminal like Floyd in any positive light is insulting to all of us.

And odds are that Biden didn't post anything on X, but some media person on his staff did it for him. Typical CYA media press release to appear to conform to popular opinion. His administration's grudging concession to mother and apple pie.

Nobody would be surprised to learn Biden was probably on an IV in his beach house or his mansion in Delaware getting pumped full of pharmaceuticals to make it appear that he was coherent.
#14.1 ruralcounsel on 2024-05-28 17:55 (Reply)
ruralcounsel: So no, not misleading, but completely accurate.

Of course it’s misleading. The article gave the impression that the mention of Floyd was in lieu of honoring Memorial Day.

ruralcounsel: Why the POTUS would even bring up a criminal like Floyd in any positive light is insulting to all of us.

Regardless of your view on the matter, that’s a separate issue.

ruralcounsel: And odds are that Biden didn't post anything on X, but some media person on his staff did it for him.

We posted the link to Biden at the National Memorial Day Observance. Not sure how else to help you.
#14.2 Zachriel on 2024-05-28 20:46 (Reply)
Zachriel: The article gave the impression that the mention of Floyd was in lieu of honoring Memorial Day.

Your misinterpretation, not theirs.

Zachriel: Regardless of your view on the matter, that’s a separate issue.

No, it's not. It's about the appropriateness of nationally recognizing a disgusting human being in a positive light.

Biden quote: "George Floyd should be alive. He deserved so much more. "

No, he didn't. He was a scumbag drug addict and street hood. We're all better off without him.

Biden quote: "... in remembering the tragedy and injustice of his death."

His death was total justice. He killed himself, the POS.
#15 ruralcounsel on 2024-05-29 11:54 (Reply)
Zachriel: The article gave the impression that the mention of Floyd was in lieu of honoring Memorial Day.

rural counsel: Your misinterpretation, not theirs.

A direct quote: "The Memorial Day weekend is on us, so quite a few people were surprised to see Joe Biden tweeting about {the anniversary of Floyd's death} instead of our selfless servicemen who paid the ultimate sacrifice". That directly ignores Biden's multiple honors for veterans lost in America's wars, including his personal participation in National Memorial Day Observance.

rural counsel: No, it's not.

The claim at issue was "Joe Biden tweeting about {the anniversary of Floyd's death} instead of our selfless servicemen who paid the ultimate sacrifice" {emphasis added}. That directly ignores Biden's multiple honors for veterans lost in America's wars, including his personal participation in National Memorial Day Observance.

ruralcounsel: He killed himself

The medical examiner ruled it to be due to "CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST COMPLICATING LAW ENFORCEMENT SUBDUAL, RESTRAINT, AND NECK COMPRESSION". The jury, who heard the evidence, ruled it murder.
#15.1 Zachriel on 2024-05-29 12:09 (Reply)
Also, to state the obvious, Saturday is not Memorial Day, nor is Sunday. "The last Monday in May is Memorial Day" (36 U.S. Code § 116).
#15.1.1 Zachriel on 2024-05-29 12:14 (Reply)

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